Nicole Kidman was travel guru for Connie Britton

Nicole Kidman gave pal Connie Britton the best advice about travelling with a kid.

The former Nashville star was complaining to the Moulin Rouge! star about her struggle to keep her eight-year-old adopted son Eyob relaxed and occupied on long flights and Nicole offered up some insightful help as she and husband Keith Urban have had plenty of experience travelling between their native Australia and their home in the U.S. with daughters Sunday Rose, 10, and Faith, eight.

Appearing on Andy Cohen's SiriusXM channel, Radio Andy, on Wednesday (16Jan19), Connie revealed, "The best piece of advice that I ever got for travelling with a kid was from Nicole Kidman... They go to Australia all the time.

"I said, 'Travelling is tricky...', and she said, 'We have it down to a science, because they... have an iPad they (only use on a plane).

"And that's what I've done... The only time he uses an iPad is on the plane. He loves it... He sits down in his seat, we don't speak during the entire plane ride, and then it goes back in his backpack when we land."

Nicole previously opened up about her struggles with being a "helicopter parent" to her daughters to Foxtel magazine in 2017.

"I do have elements of the helicopter parent that I grapple with," she said. "When my daughters are playing on the monkey bars I try not to hover and say, 'be careful'. I want them to find their own way and not feel overparented, but I still have that balance of knowing I am there when they need me."

"Sometimes I'm too much and that's when they go, 'Please don't burst into tears when I tell you this Mum. So I try not to because I want them to tell me things."